Lanzante has dropped a teaser image of
the McLaren P1 GT Longtail that will premiere at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this month – and it looks very promising. This teaser offers a
side view of the hypercar and its similarities to the McLaren F1 GT Longtail
are striking. Compared to the regular P1, the bodywork has been elongated and
lowered to look like the vehicle’s predecessor.
In particular, the front end appears
much more streamlined while the rear decklid seems to stretch on forever before
making way for a large rear wing. Additionally, a huge roof scoop is visible.
An image released last month revealed that the front of the P1 GT Longtail will
receive louvers on the wheel arches and an aggressive carbon fiber front
spliter. Additionally, the car will be painted in a stunning shade dubbed deep
bottle green, as this color adorned the road-legal F1 XP GT Longtail.
It remains to be seen if the P1 GT is
based around a standard P1 or a GTR. Either way, we know that it will have a
3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 hybrid powertrain that could deliver the same 986 hp as
the P1 LM from Lanzante. As such, the P1 GT could be the fastest variant yet of
the British marque’s hybrid hypercar and it may also be the most beautiful.
McLaren built three examples of the
original F1 GT, and it’s possible that Lanzante may do the same with the P1 GT.
What we do know is that the project started when a customer from the Middle
East commissioned Lanzante to build him a longtail P1.
